TRANSMISSION STUDY OF PICOSECOND PHOTOCARRIER DYNAMICS IN FREESTANDING POROUS SILICON

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MALY, P [1 ]
TROJANEK, F [1 ]
HOSPODKOVA, A [1 ]
KOHLOVA, V [1 ]
PELANT, I [1 ]
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[1] CZECHOSLOVAK ACAD SCI, INST PHYS, CS-16200 PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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10.1016/0038-1098(94)90582-7
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
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Pump and probe technique has been used to study time-resolved differential absorbance of free-standing porous silicon at room temperature. The second (532 nm) harmonics of a mode-locked Nd3+:YAG picosecond laser served as pump pulses and the fundamental frequency (1.06 mum) were used as probe pulses. Photocarrier dynamics shows a fast decay in time domain of hundred picoseconds. A model of bimolecular radiative recombination is suggested, the values of bimolecular radiative recombination coefficient B and excited carrier cross section sigma have been found to be B = 4 x 10(-10) cm3 s-1 and sigma = 9 x 10(-18) cm2, very close to the values reported for direct gap semiconductors.
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